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I rarely use the world “evil,” but it’s the word for Vilina Vlas, a hotel & spa used as a rape concentration camp during the Bosnian War by a Serb paramilitary group.
@AhNidzara remembers the 200 Bosnian Muslim women & girls held there kosovotwopointzero.com/en/remembering…
I rarely use the world “evil,” but it’s the word for Vilina Vlas, a hotel & spa used as a rape concentration camp during the Bosnian War by a Serb paramilitary group.
@AhNidzara remembers the 200 Bosnian Muslim women & girls held there kosovotwopointzero.com/en/remembering…
Bosnian journalist, feminist and friend @AhNidzara took me to Vilina Vlas in 2016 so that I could see how the horrors that women and girls are subjected to are so quickly erased; how the site of their horror is again a hotel and spa. No memorial. As if nothing had happened there.
As a receptionist gave us a tour, I could feel the spirit of the women and girls who had been kept prisoner in that rape concentration camp. “We remember you, sisters. We honour you, sisters,”I kept saying to myself. I promised I would always remind the world of what they endured
This “spa” was a rape concentration camp where Bosnian Serb militias raped Muslim women & girls during the war. No one has been held accountable. Shame on Republic of Srpska for advertising this “tourist site” and on municipality for administering hotel of horrors.h/t @georgiokon
I rarely use the world “evil,” but there is no other word for Vilina Vlas, a hotel and spa which in 1992 was used as headquarters for murder and rape by Milan Lukic, the leader of the Serb paramilitary group the White Eagles. 200 women and girls were sexually enslaved there 
Bosnian journalist, feminist and friend @AhNidzara took me to Vilina Vlas in 2016 so that I could see how the horrors that women and girls are subjected to are so quickly erased; how the site of their horror is again a hotel and spa. No memorial. As if nothing has happened
Today I’m bringing stories from the RS. Unfortunately, they’re horrifyingly sad & despicable↓
1) #Kalinovik residents are using this Sunday morning to paint a mural honouring the Kalinovik-born genocide perpetrator & war criminal Ratko Mladić. The painting reads Town of the Hero
1) #Kalinovik residents are using this Sunday morning to paint a mural honouring the Kalinovik-born genocide perpetrator & war criminal Ratko Mladić. The painting reads Town of the Hero
Meanwhile, #Kalinovik ‘Caffe Royal’ is crowded with middle-aged men wearing nationalist t-shirts. Between sip and sip, they take care of their kids, who are playing war games with toy guns —in a very ‘professional’ way, running, taking shelter and shooting at imagined enemies.
Lest we forget that the ‘accomplishments’ of ‘The Town Hero’ amount to a whole catalogue of war crimes ranging from forced displacement to rapes & mass killings —not to mention genocide. #Kalinovik figures speak for themselves: out of 1.314 Muslim residents in 1991 only 57 remain
